• Jenny Bluestein, St. Louis celebrity hair stylist, nurse, dies at 60

    May 14, 2012

    Jenny Bluestein, a onetime nurse who became a prominent hair stylist and TV personality in St. Louis and who then opened her cancer battle to the public, died April 27 at 60 of a pulmonary embolism. [[READMORE]] “Our viewers loved her,” said Jennifer Blome, KSDK-TV news anchorwoman. “She took great pleasure in helping people be… More ▸

  • Mark Deitch, former Soviet dissident, dies in accident at 67

    May 14, 2012

    Mark Deitch, 67, a former dissident who became a well-known journalist in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, died in Bali, Indonesia, in early May while saving a young girl from drowning. Accounts didn’t give the exact date. [[READMORE]] Deitch was a prominent anti-Soviet journalist before the fall of communism and worked for… More ▸

  • Maurice Sendak, children’s author, dies at 83

    May 8, 2012

    Author and artist Maurice Sendak, writer of some of the darkest yet most beloved children’s books of the 20th century, died May 8 at 83. [[READMORE]] Sendak’s classics included 1963′s, "Where the Wild Things Are," whose yellow-toothed, grasping monsters were based on his relatives, "In the Night Kitchen," “Alligators All Around,” “Chicken Soup With Rice,”… More ▸

  • Only in Israel? Poster showing Prime Minister’s shiva for his father

    May 3, 2012

    In Israel, posters announcing a death, the details of the funeral, the names of the mourners, and the location and dates of the shiva are found on buildings, lampposts, bulletin boards, and elsewhere. I took this picture of the death notice posted across Jerusalem noting the passing of Benzion Netanyahu, father of Israeli Prime Minister… More ▸

  • Readers respond to Eulogizer coverage of death of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

    May 1, 2012

    I asked you, the readers, to tell me if the Eulogizer was correct in posting a lengthy obituary of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, a 71-year-old yogi and guru who was born Joyce Green to Jewish parents in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood, and your overwhelming response was that the article was appreciated. [[READMORE]] “I enjoyed the… More ▸

  • Benzion Netanyahu, historian, Israeli Prime Minister’s father, dies at 102

    April 30, 2012

    Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israel’s prime minister, a noted historian and a prominent Zionist thinker with direct ties to fabled Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky, died April 30 at 102. [[READMORE]] Netanyahu was professor emeritus at Cornell University. His academic specialty was the golden age of Jewish history in Spain. His most well-known book… More ▸

  • Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, yoga teacher and ‘guru’ born Joyce Green, dies at 71

    April 29, 2012

    Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, a yoga teacher and spiritual leader who was born Joyce Green in Brooklyn, died April 14 at 71, leaving behind a large and complex legacy including thousands of devoted followers, celebrity acolytes, disgruntled former colleagues, and intentional communities in Florida and elsewhere. (Note: Please click here or read below for a… More ▸

  • Jewish song pioneer Gladys Gewirtz dies at 84

    April 28, 2012

    Gladys Gewirtz, who went from Juilliard to Camp Ramah to recording nursery rhymes for Jewish children to acting in a TV Holocaust film with Kirk Douglas, died April 14 at 84. [[READMORE]] Gewirtz, a graduate of the Juilliard School became the first music director of Camp Ramah. She and her sister, Roz Grossman, developed children’s… More ▸